William M. Daley Quotes
What we are seeing here is democracy in action.
William M. Daley, Presidential Assistant (Democrat), U. S. Secretary of Commerce (Democrat), Presidential Campaign Manager, Statement regarding the 2000 Presidential election where the results were so close that the outcome hung on how the courts would rule on Florida ballot design, Statement, November 10, 2000
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Slogan that Theodore Roosevelt developed to go with this attempt to nominate Presidents with Primary Elections. Prior to his 1912 run for the Presidency, presidential nominees were selected by the delegates to the party national convention. Since then the parties have used various combinations of delegates that were bound by primary election results in their state and other delegates who could use their judgment. No combination has been totally satisfactory and both major American political parties tinker with the combination every four years.
The infamous breakdown in the Presidential election of 2000 was in large part the result of no rules or training for the election officials. Handley was one of the few officials who publicly admitted that the eligibility of a ballot was dependent on very subjective decisions of many different people.
William Michael Daley is an American lawyer, politician and former banker. He served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, from January 2011 to January 2012. He also served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, from 1997 to 2000, under President Bill Clinton. He has also served on the executive committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Daley was a candidate for Governor of Illinois in the 2014 gubernatorial election, until dropping out of the race on September 16, 2013. He ran in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election but came in third in the first-round voting, and did not advance to the runoff. He served as the Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon from June through October 2019. Since November 13, 2019, Daley has served as the Vice Chairman of Public Affairs for Wells Fargo.
